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October 23, 2004 8:07 PM

O'Reilly Competitor Offers to Buy O'Reilly/Mackris Tapes to Prevent Them From Being Destroyed!
An vital action to save history from a permanent cover-up? An abdication of journalistic integrity? A publicity stunt for a show with one-eighth the audience of Bill O's? A major act of snarkiness from a newbie journo-blogger? Or just another reason Olbermann never should've quit doing sports?
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posted by wendell (10 comments total)

None of the above!! Merely an typo.
posted by Mach3avelli at 8:34 PM on October 23, 2004

I am such a ass.
posted by wendell at 8:36 PM on October 23, 2004

Shouldn't Larry Flynt have already stepped forward to buy the tapes? He's really off his game lately.
posted by crank at 9:24 PM on October 23, 2004

*sound of buzzing vibrator*
posted by quonsar at 9:35 PM on October 23, 2004

The clips of him narrating his smut novel were torturously awful enough, I think it's best if they do get destroyed.
posted by Space Coyote at 9:44 PM on October 23, 2004

Olbermann's show is easily the more interesting cable news channel choice in his time slot -- then again perhaps the fact that he's up against O'Reilly and a Paula Zahn fluff show has something to do with it.
posted by clevershark at 10:17 PM on October 23, 2004

Hey: The tapes are worth four million. Sorry, me and a lot of other people would pay a dollar or two to listen to choice segments.
posted by xammerboy at 11:19 PM on October 23, 2004

I guess the fact that he is buying her out proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he does masturbate with a vibrator stuck up his ass.


Oh yeah, and the sexual harassament thing.
posted by sic at 4:11 AM on October 24, 2004

Shouldn't Larry Flynt have already stepped forward to buy the tapes? He's really off his game lately.

Yeah, I mean, Bob Guccione's already got his letters: "Dear Penthouse, I'm a news commentator at a major cable news channel--I can't say which one, for obvious reasons--and I wouldn't have believed this could happen if it hadn't happened to me..."
posted by arto at 6:05 PM on October 24, 2004

Shouldn't Larry Flynt have already stepped forward to buy the tapes?

Rolled. Rolled forward.
posted by cortex at 9:31 AM on October 25, 2004